{"id":66338,"date":"2025-08-13T11:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66338\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:05:20","slug":"will-former-bellator-champion-aaron-pico-rise-in-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66338\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Former Bellator Champion Aaron Pico Rise In The UFC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Southern California native and former Bellator MMA <\/a>star is extremely talented. To put his talent into perspective, Aaron Pico<\/a> was signed by Bellator<\/a> and made his debut on a pay-per-view card straight out of high school. Legendary boxing coach Freddie Roach<\/a> \u2013 best known as Manny Pacquiao<\/a>\u2018s head trainer\u2014has only assisted in training two MMA fighters: the first was UFC double champion and all-time great Georges St-Pierre<\/a>, and the second is Aaron Pico. Training out of the world-class Jackson Wink gym<\/a>, Pico has access to a wide range of fighters and coaches with championship experience.<\/p>\n

There is a history of former Bellator<\/a> stars struggling in their UFC debuts. Despite a tough debut, many have gone on to have great careers in the UFC cage. Will Aaron Pico be the next name added to that list?<\/p>\n

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Aaron Pico\u2019s fellow Bellator alumni<\/p>\n

Several Bellator fighters like have made the transition to the UFC. While many have found great success, a common theme \u2013 and now a trope among fans \u2013 is that the spotlight shines too bright the first time out. Most recently, Bellator bantamweight champion Patchy Mix<\/a> looked nothing like himself in a losing performance against Mario Bautista<\/a> at UFC 316.<\/a><\/p>\n

Many of the fighters mentioned on this list went on to achieve great success in the UFC, including becoming champions. Will Aaron Pico have a winning debut like Michael \u201cVenom\u201d Page or Ben Askren<\/a>, or will he join the list of highly talented fighters from Bellator who didn\u2019t find success in their UFC debut.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Southern California native and former Bellator MMA star is extremely talented. To put his talent into perspective,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-66338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}